FACEBOOK, SMALL WORLD AFTERALL

Facebook is the world’s largest social network with over 901 million users worldwide which started in a dorm of Harvard University by a student Mark Zuckerberg who is now a billionaire. So what brought me here writing about this social network? I actually wanted to know the date when I signed up for the FACEBOOK. I would assume that it would take me many many many hours to click 'older posts' until I got back to the beginning. It took me a long time scrolling down just to find out when I joined FACEBOOK. I've looked and there seems to be no sure fire way. Here’s what’s really intense! Now with the activation of timeline, we get the exact date and time we joined the FB.  Admittedly this application found my earliest stored status update. So what I did was, I let my sister open her account and voila! It showed up! It was on  September 9, 2008, it’s been four years as I remember it, and I signed up in the first place because of my friend Vanessa, whom suggested it to me.  I’ve been in Friendster before and then Facebook came along and altered the new paradigm in social networking. So what I did, I deleted my account in Friendster and went around the bend over FB. With timeline, it showed me proof that I have been on Facebook that long.

When Facebook first started, it was a social networking site geared towards college students, to meet people in their new schools in order to have a small group of acquaintances before they got to school. It also allowed students to keep in touch with their friends from high school who had gone to different schools. WE are all thankful; a lot more people have the opportunity to stay connected with the people they care about. Besides basic information, Facebook trends have taken part in everyday life. Friends near and far get to know their peers, and one saying it could lead to someone telling people more than many need to know. This social site has a heart; displaying what mattered to you, things you did, and things you experienced, right there for all to see. It has proved to us all that we can keep in touch under one social networking site – even while out of touch. It is only a tool of communication, how we used it is our choice. As Facebook grew up alongside us, it improved our collective social lives. To me, it is really capable of profound emotional impact wherein pictures, events and news are being updated making it possible to document entire lives with ease.  It is sort of an assistant to me along with writings of my own personal remembrances. For some users, it might even serve as a personal demonstration of why life is worth living.

Every time Facebook changes something on their platform, people seem to get all freaked out and complain because they have to learn something new or change the way they were doing things. I understand and appreciate change can be a bit disconcerting, but I’m one of those people who not only accepts change; I actually seek it out. At first, I was really hesitant to put my Facebook live on timeline. I hated it, yet change is therefore to be accepted.  My timeline is something I am getting used to look at now. Anyways, a lot of changing will still to come on FB. We may not be able to like it or we will love the new features to come, but that’s inevitable. It is going to happen and there's nothing you can do about it. Change is related to growth. If you do not change, you do not see, hear, feel, know or go towards anything more than what you are now. In order to gain, in any way, you must change what "is" now. Let us study change and find out. It is a far easier thing to manage change than you may imagine. Changing is choosing. Nothing more.

Happy 4^th year to my FACEBOOK account! CHEERS!

-dyoyzee-